There are people out there who really, really don’t want Mark Mitchell to be the next mayor of Tempe.Recently, his opponent, Michael Monti, pulled out a police report involving an incident Mitchell was involved in with the cops in 1993 on Mill Avenue, when Mitchell was 24 years old.Mitchell said Monti…
UPDATE: As a reader pointed out, the Wall Street Journal says “people familiar with the matter” claim the lawsuit’s being filed tomorrow. The Department of Justice sent letters notifying Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyers that the DoJ’s suing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office “in order…
Congressional candidate Vernon Parker, who once kind of ran for governor for a bit, now has the stamp of approval from his ex-boss, former President George H.W. Bush.Parker’s among the approximate truckload of candidates running for Congress in the newly formed Ninth Congressional District, which just had another addition –…
Phoenix police have identified 19-year-old Pedro Ramirez as the allegedly drunk driver who got in a head-on collision on the morning of April 30, killing a 5-year-old boy.The boy’s mom was arrested, too, and faces child-abuse charges for putting her youngster in the car driven by Ramirez, and not placing…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ian Kennedy pitched five very good innings on Tuesday night at Chase Field against the St. Louis Cardinals. Unfortunately, those five shut-out frames came after the ace couldn’t get anybody out in the first two innings, in which he gave up a pair of homers (including a…
Yesterday, former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton was sentenced to a lifetime of probation for having sex with one of the school’s students, and other related incidents.Compton, now 21, was arrested in March 2011 after principals at Phoenix’s Western Valley Middle School found out Compton had been sending nudie…
Mark Goldman, the wealthy lawyer buddy of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and disgraced former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, is seeking votes in a State Bar of Arizona election.He’s one of eight candidates vying for the Maricopa County District position on the State Bar’s Board of Governors, which oversees Bar…
I knew Gilbert massacre shooter J.T. Ready was from Polk County, Florida, and I had contacted some relatives of his over the weekend seeking comment. (No luck, alas.) But until today, I could find no mention of him in his hometown newspaper, The Ledger, located in Lakeland, Florida.Thankfully, Ledger reporter…
If about two-thirds of the signatures Mike Stauffer hands over to the county elections office tomorrow are legit, he’ll be on the ballot for Maricopa County Sheriff come November.Stauffer, a Scottsdale police lieutenant, is running as an Independent, which — as the Feathered Bastard previously pointed out — requires 19,410…
A $500,000 loan to a Colorado company intended for a medical-marijuana facility doesn’t have to be paid back because pot is illegal under federal law, a county judge has ruled.The bombshell ruling, (tip of the hat to lawyer Richard Keyt’s medical-marijuana blog), has major implications for the budding dispensary industry…
Jeff Huelster, a teacher at Cortez High School — and the school’s head football coach — is accused of sex crimes against children, including live-streaming video of his penis over the Internet to a person he thought was a minor.In classic To Catch a Predator style, Huelster met the minor…
Gilbert police released the recordings of the 9-1-1 calls yesterday made before and after neo-Nazi J.T. Ready allegedly murdered four people before icing himself last week, and not surprisingly, local news outlets weren’t too hip to the idea of playing the entire recordings.Since we’re not in the business of sugarcoating,…
Update: Gabriela Compton Sentencing: Lawyer Weighs in on the ControversyWelcome to the wide world of teacher sex-scandal sentencing, as former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton was sentenced this morning to a life on probation.Compton, now 21, was arrested in March 2011 after principals at Phoenix’s Western Valley Middle School…
In 2006, police searched nationwide for a Queen Creek man accused of a machete attack on his estranged wife and her boyfriend. The manhunt ended within days after Chandler cops arrested 33-year-old Armando Lopez Jr., who was accused of assaulting the pair inside the woman’s home in Magma Ranch, a…
How many pitchers does it take to give up nine runs — including five home runs — to the St. Louis Cardinals? For the Arizona Diamondbacks last night, the answer was half of them. There are 12 pitchers on the D’Backs active roster, and six of them pitched last night…
It’s been almost two years since Valley sports fans got the opportunity to use their favorite playoff-time refrain: Beat L.A.It’s not the Phoenix Suns this time, though. It’s the Phoenix Coyotes who are slated for a series against the Los Angeles Kings.The Coyotes defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 last night…
Former proseuctor Lisa Aubuchon and her husband, Peter Pestalozzi, owe $40,721 in federal taxes, records show.The federal tax lien listed on the Maricopa County Recorder’s website includes $3,388 in unpaid taxes for 2009 and $37,332 for 2010.Aubuchon, who was disbarred on April 10 along with her former County Attorney boss,…
The book co-authored by one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s purported “special deputies”/ex-Sheriff’s Posse member is “all wrong,” according to the sheriff.Between “no comment” and “it’s all wrong,” Arpaio tells New Times that he didn’t actually read the book apparently slamming his investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate and…
One of the easiest ways to piss off Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — aside from being in the country illegally or writing for New Times — is to mess with a puppy. Or probably it’s just that Joe realizes animals get his mug on TV easily. Animal abuse is…
As of Thursday, Andrew Thomas, Lisa Aubuchon, and Rachel Alexander no longer will be able to practice law in Arizona.A disciplinary panel of the Arizona Supreme Court ordered the trio’s disbarment on April 10, and court officials stated that the order would become effective on May 10. The former Maricopa…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio put the 60th notch in his illegal-immigrant roundup/”employer sanctions operation” belt today, as deputies nabbed four people at a Tempe office furniture store.Running off another “tip,” deputies went to Interior Solutions in Tempe this morning, arresting four people believed to be in the country illegally on…
Abortion still seems to be a top priority for Governor Jan Brewer and the Legislature, as the governor announced the signing of yet another bill that’s not making Planned Parenthood happy at all.Late last week, the governor signed into law House Bill 2800, which, as described in the broadest sense…
